Time In Greece

"Time in Greece" takes us "Back in the Day"... 45 years into the past. Together we open the pages of Eleftherotypia from Friday, 26 September 1980 - and discover just how much of it still resonates with today, nearly half a century later.

The story of the minesweeper “Pinios”, which sank in the line of duty on October 24, 1945.

September 24, 1828... Ioannis Kapodistrias establishes the country’s first postal service. The “mentzilia”, as they were called, were postal riders paid by the state, who carried messages to every corner of the country on horseback. "Time in Greece" revisits history... highlighting postal stories, traci...

It's the Friday edition of the program “Time in Greece” with Nikolas Angelidis.  Back in the Day… takes us 40 years back, on Thursday, September 19, 1985, and we read "Filathlos" newspaper. We read about… AEK’s historic victory over Real Madrid, 1–0. The unbelievable goal by Pavlos Papaioannou, ...

A unique tribute to the 101st anniversary of AEK, which is celebrated today... It was on September 18, 1924, when the Court of First Instance of Athens approved the statutes of the Athletic Union of Constantinople (AEK), with its emblem being the double-headed eagle, its colors yellow and black, and...

A look back into the history of neighboring Turkey and the events that led to the arrest and execution of the country’s ninth prime minister, Adnan Menderes. It was on this day, 17 September 1961, sixty-four years ago. The program examines his relations with Greece, the pogrom against the Greeks o...

The shocking story… buried in the depths of the darkest period. The Greek Mauthausen… Some have just heard something about it. Others don’t even know it exists. Few people know what really happened there… We travel to Karya, Fthiotida, to encounter this Nazi Hell, to learn its history and what became ...

It is the Friday edition of the program “Time in Greece”,  Back in the Day… takes us back to 1963. We pick up and leaf through "Apogevmatini" newspaper: the Friday, September 12th issue, 62 years ago today! We read about... A crime of passion in Galatsi that shocked the whole country. The politic...

One of the most violent assaults by state and employers against workers took place in Lattimer, Pennsylvania (USA) in 1897. A major uprising and strike of 10,000 coal miners ended with the killing of 19 workers. Layoffs, wage cuts, rising rents in the shacks where miners lived next to the pits, hostility...

Today we’re talking about e-books and neighborhood bookstores. Joining us are Michalis Kalamaras, publishing consultant at eAnagnostis.gr, and Giannis Tsioubris, owner of the “Monogramma” bookstore in Zephyri. Our discussion focuses on the rise of the e-book in Greece and on local bookstores, which...

A story of struggle and Resistance. Five fighters of EAM (National Liberation Front) are led to the gallows of the Nazi executioners in the square of Lixouri, Kefalonia. They are the professor and philologist Dionysis Ratsiatos, Gavriil Rallatos together with his son Vasileios, Antonis Lixouriotatos,...

Every Friday, "Time in Greece" takes you back into the world of press history. Nikolas Angelidis becomes your time-travel guide, turning the calendar back to a specific date and leafing through the newspapers of that day. Today, we open the issue of the newspaper“Αθλητική Ηχώ” (Athlitiki Echo) from Fri...

Politician, diplomat, historian, poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, writer, soldier, translator, biographer... All these titles belong to one man – and that’s no exaggeration! François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand, a figure of French literature, fell so deeply in love with Greece –its struggl...

Today we once again turn back the pages of the calendar and open the ledgers of history. We arrive in 1843, on the 3rd of September… A movement breaks out in Athens with the aim of establishing parliamentarianism against absolute monarchy… The uprising proceeds successfully… The absolutism of King ...

Rosa Imvrioti… A monumental chapter—one of the most remarkable—in the history of education in Greece. An educator who transformed teaching methods and a pioneer in special education, she founded the first school for children with intellectual disabilities in 1937. But her mission was not confined to th...

One of the foremost figures of the Modern Greek Enlightenment… The great Cephalonian prose writer and satirical poet, Andreas Laskaratos, unfolds before us his turbulent life and his rich body of work. A lawyer never accepted by the establishment, almost a doctor, yet ultimately a rare kind of t...

It is the Friday edition of the program “Time in Greece”,  Back in the Day… takes us 50 years or half a century into the past. We leaf through “Eleftherotypia” newspaper. And back then, too, it was a Friday. We read the news of the time and discover… The Palestinian issue, already at an impass...

From Alexandria to Marseille, then to Athens, from serving as a wartime radio operator to stepping onto the stage and the big screen to deliver unforgettable laughter—Dinos Iliopoulos is one of the great figures of Greek cinema and theatre. “Time in Greece" presents his story, his body of work, and...